Research “excellence” is a central target of policy, researchers and institutions. Increasingly it is a target of criticism for the way in which it reinforces systemic biases in power, reduces diversity, and excludes many participants from the processes of scholarship. In this chapter I argue that in the context of post- colonial and tra…[Read more]

This white paper was prepared by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage:
Toward a Common Framework. Primary authors are: Brian O’Leary (BISG) and Kevin Hawkins (University of North Texas). The project team, who contributed editing and
improvements, include C…[Read more]

This document is an extract from the report Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data, which forms part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework.

Attendee agenda associated with an invitation-only workshop held in Tribecca, NY on December 3-4 2018. The workshop involved key stakeholders in OA eBooks and formed part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework.

This report was prepared by KU Research as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework. Primary authors were: Cameron Neylon, Lucy Montgomery, Nic Suzor, Joanne Gray and Alkim Ozaygen. The project team, who contributed editing and improvements, included Kevin Hawkins (University of…[Read more]

On 19 June 2013 Knowledge Unlatched and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School jointly convened a one-day workshop titled Open Access and Scholarly Books in Cambridge, MA. The workshop brought together a group of 21 invited publishers, librarians, academics and Open Access innovators to discuss the challenge of making…[Read more]

Social theories of knowledge necessarily emphasise context and relativism. They are grounded in a specific situation or community. Where they seek to use such a grounding to approach a concept of general or objective knowledge they tend to either be unsatisfying in philosophical depth, or to turn on questions of the relative power of groups. In…[Read more]

Introduction. Open access to digital research output is increasing, but academic library policies can place restrictions on public access to libraries. This paper reports on a preliminary study to investigate the correlation between academic library access policies and institutional positions of openness to knowledge.
Method. This primarily…[Read more]

This study of UCL Press sought to identify the extent to which data available to Open Access (OA) monograph presses can be combined with low-cost analysis tools to provide insight into development and strategy. An additional goal was identifying practical steps that monograph publishers can take to ensure that they make the most of the data they…[Read more]